If you enjoyed the earlier “Harold & Kumar” movies, you will almost certainly laugh at this third outing. It’s full of all the nudity, drugs and bodily fluids that you would expect from this franchise. At times, “A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas” feels less like a film and more like a showcase for 3D technology.

Like the other films, the plot is minimal. Harold (John Cho “Searching”) and Kumar (Kal Penn “Superman Returns”) now lead separate and very different lives but when the two accidentally burn down a treasured family Christmas tree, they will have to work together if they want the perfect Christmas. Almost every scene sees a new obstacle get in their way so prepare to see them deal with Eastern-European gangsters and a drug-fuelled baby.

The Harold and Kumar characters have not particularly grown on me. This one tries to develop them a bit more but it’s hard to care about the emotions of stoners trying to get a Christmas tree. I did enjoy the brief scene where they get turned into Claymation characters during a hallucination after getting their drinks spiked. Danny Trejo (“Machete”) is good as Harold’s father-in-law. Neil Patrick Harris (“Starship Troopers”) appears yet again and the scenes involving him are woefully unfunny.

“A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas” has some funny moments here and there but it’s so desperate in its quest to be offensive that it becomes rather tiresome. This movie contains racist jokes, a depiction of Jesus Christ as a strip club owner, Santa Claus getting shot, a man pretending to be homosexual to take advantage of women, a baby on drugs, references to paedophile priests, nuns in the showers and plenty of foul language. If this film sounds like good fun then you will probably enjoy it but I’m sure there are plenty of others that will be groaning after just merely imagining what it is like.